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Seoul

Seoul

65 1.3
The capital city of South Korea
  • proper noun
  • /soʊl/
: Seúl
  • I live in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea.
  • Seoul, Korea
  • Seoul, South Korea
  • Seoul, the capital

When alumni gather by the hundreds to greet me in Seoul, London, Rio, or Mumbai.

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Examples

  • I live in Seoul and I make content about living in Korea.

  • When I came to Seoul to buy back my house, I brought W3,500,000 at that time.

  • We're here to grow in Seoul and to grow each other in Seoul.

  • You can see all of Seoul from up here.

  • Her husband came to Seoul to find a job.

  • This next call comes all the way from Seoul, South Korea.

  • When are you coming back to Seoul?

  • We're flying with Singapore Airlines to Seoul, South Korea.

  • And, you know, she's born in Seoul and so she grew up in a house church her whole life.

  • Enduring trust between the international community and South Korea was instrumental to Seoul's development.

    Academic text (2011)

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Seoul comes from the Korean word 서울, which simply means 'capital' or 'capital city'. So the name itself tells you it is South Korea's main city.